San Diego congressional leaders secure $250M for South Bay treatment plant, but passage by Congress uncertain
San Diego’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday it had secured the remaining funding needed to upgrade the long-neglected federal wastewater treatment plant at the U.S.-Mexico border that has allowed sewage from Tijuana to pollute South County shorelines. But the stopgap spending bill that would provide the $250 million to complete the critical repairs was scrapped late Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump and others urged the House of Representatives to reject the deal, putting the fate of the plant funding in limbo. … The South Bay facility has long been underfunded and undermaintained. It repeatedly takes in more sewage from Tijuana than it was designed to treat, which has left the agency with multiple Clean Water Act violations for releasing wastewater into the Pacific Ocean beyond what it is permitted.
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